{"id":65915,"date":"2026-02-10T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maine-republican-senator-susan-collins-launches-re-election-bid-for-pivotal-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:26","slug":"maine-republican-senator-susan-collins-launches-re-election-bid-for-pivotal-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maine-republican-senator-susan-collins-launches-re-election-bid-for-pivotal-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Republican senator Susan Collins launches re-election bid for pivotal seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collins is expected to face tough re-election battle as Democrats seek to flip seat in this year\u2019s midterm elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/10\/donald-trump-ice-democrats-shutdown-jeffrey-epstein-canada-live-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Susan Collins, the Maine Republican senator who is a top target of Democrats in this year\u2019s midterm elections, on Tuesday launched her campaign for a sixth term in office.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to face one of the toughest re-election battles of the year, as victory in Maine is seen as essential to Democrats\u2019 hopes of winning back control of the Senate, and putting a halt to Donald Trump\u2019s legislative agenda. First elected in 1996, Collins is among the few Republican senators who occasionally defy the president, and is the only one representing a state that the president did not carry in his successful re-election bid two years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/10\/maine-republican-susan-collins-senate-reelection-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collins is expected to face tough re-election battle as Democrats seek to flip seat in this year\u2019s midterm elections US politics live \u2013 latest updates Susan Collins, the Maine Republican senator who is a top target of Democrats in this year\u2019s midterm elections, on Tuesday launched her campaign for a sixth term in office. She &#8230; <a title=\"Maine Republican senator Susan Collins launches re-election bid for pivotal seat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maine-republican-senator-susan-collins-launches-re-election-bid-for-pivotal-seat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maine Republican senator Susan Collins launches re-election bid for pivotal seat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}